How to Make a Grateful Thanksgiving Wreath

Celebrate the season and get crafty with a Cricut Maker™ as you make a Grateful Thanksgiving Wreath. This wreath is not only a beautiful decoration full of colorful leaves and acorns but it also doubles as place cards for your Thanksgiving feast! Your guests will enjoy writing on their own place cards that can then be added to the wreath and displayed all season long.

1Create & cut out the leaves

Cut out approximately 85 leaves of different shapes and colors from the 3D Floral Home Decor set in Design Space™. Cut leaves at 4 1/2 inches using the metallic cardstock. Assemble the leaves by putting glue on tabs of each leaf and bringing the opposite side of the leaf to the tabs. See the below photo as a guide.

2Create & cut out the acorns

Using your Cricut™, also cut both layers of the acorn found in Create a Critter 2. Use brown metallic cardstock for the base of the acorn and gold foil cardstock for the top. Using the Cuttlebug™ and "Dots" Embossing Folder, emboss the gold foil cardstock pieces (top of the acorn) which gives it dimension. Assemble the layers and set the acorn aside.

3Attach the Spanish Moss

Using hot glue, attach the Spanish Moss to the front of the wreath form, covering completely.

4Attach the "Grateful" sign

Hot glue the "Grateful" sign on each side and attach to the wreath form.

5Attach the leaves

Using hot glue, attach the leaves to the wreath by alternating colors and shapes of leaves until the form is completely covered.

6Attach the acorns

Attach the acorns to the leaves in various places using 3D foam squares which make the acorns "pop" out a bit on the wreath.

7Display on Thanksgiving

Put extra leaves in a basket of choice along with a gold metallic pen for your guests to write their names on a leaf. Have the guest then place their leaf at their seat at the table as a place card. After the feast, each leaf can be added to the wreath using Glue Dots® and the wreath can then be displayed all season long as a memory of the special day!